Australian voters would support a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as well as constitutional recognition, a new survey has found. Of the 60% who said they would support constitutional recognition, 36% said they would definitely vote ‘yes’ and 24% said they probably would. Related: Backing for Indigenous treaty grows as constitutional recognition loses supportRecognise, the organisation charged with drumming up support for the referendum, put support for the ‘yes’ vote at 77% in its latest survey in May. Turnbull made the comment after the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said a treaty could be part of a post constitutional recognition settlement. Related: George Brandis issues warning over Labor's Indigenous treaty planHowever the proportion of people who said they would strongly oppose a treaty was higher than the proportion who strongly opposed constitutional recognition, with 9% and 7% respectively.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2016 02:57 UTC